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02-04-2008, 02:23 PM
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Lord of the rings / 10 Second Club / Meet Coordinator
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Location: Millstone Township, NJ
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Lookin for decent place to live in N. Jersey
Well I'm getting married in a couple months and we are starting to look for a house in N. Jersey. This is a tough question to ask but We are looking in between Springfield and Franklin Lakes. This where we each work so access to 287, parkway, or turnpike is optimal. Clifton is dead in the middle but I don't want to base everything just on a central point.
Anyone have any recommendations for a good decent area to live. Thanks.
-Brian
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02-04-2008, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Metuchen is right off 287
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02-04-2008, 04:22 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Poconos, PA
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franklin lakes is a pricey area and clifton isnt too bad.
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02-04-2008, 04:23 PM
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plenty of for sale signs here in wallington
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02-04-2008, 04:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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we have a spot for ya here in Fairfield
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02-04-2008, 05:14 PM
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Mr Fantastic
Join Date: Aug 2004
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dont move to west milford
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02-04-2008, 05:18 PM
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my towns nice, house prices have really started coming down too, like every where i guess lol, access to the parkway is just up oradell ave. taxes are on the high side tho, id look into paramus, near the oradell boarder cuz taxes are lower and houses roughly the same size
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02-04-2008, 05:51 PM
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Resident Camera Guy
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Location: North Jersey
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Come to Hawthorne! Right along 208/287/rt80/Turnpike & Parkway!
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02-04-2008, 10:07 PM
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Location: New Milford
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clifton is pretty decent, and theres alot of us fbody guys around
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my stepdad is a cop here too
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02-04-2008, 10:38 PM
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Lord of the rings / 10 Second Club / Meet Coordinator
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thanks for the tips guys. Looks like Essex county is a good area for us to start and we will def. be checking out clifton. We may be takin a ride this weekend to check a few places out. I wish I was checking some places out in S. Jersey but its just too far from where we work. I'm in Piscataway and my lady has a 55 mile drive each way as it is.
-Brian
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02-04-2008, 11:04 PM
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just a word of advice.. traffic in the clifton area is the absolute SUCK within any 3 hr window of AM or PM rush hour. essex county is the most expensive county in the state. Avoid rt. 80 for the 15 miles east or west of Parsippany. Check into Cedar Grove or Verona, right on 23 with easy access to where you need to be.
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02-05-2008, 10:19 AM
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Lord of the rings / 10 Second Club / Meet Coordinator
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great information. Thanks for the heads up. Damn this house search business kinda blows.
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02-05-2008, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Hillsborough is close enough to rt 287, but dollar for dollar you can get way more house and a nice back yard and great neighbors but the commute is worth it!!!
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02-05-2008, 06:57 PM
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im 5min from any major highway...within 10min from the pike and parkway. NYC is 20min away
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02-05-2008, 07:49 PM
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i live in the suburbs of Paterson and it isn't so bad...pretty close to 80 46 and the Parkway...tons of affordable houses...some on my block in fact.... 
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02-05-2008, 08:36 PM
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i live in the suburbs of Paterson and it isn't so bad...pretty close to 80 46 and the Parkway...tons of affordable houses...some on my block in fact.... |
I'll second that Barb lives in the nice part of Paterson, right next to Totowa.
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02-05-2008, 09:21 PM
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Lord of the rings / 10 Second Club / Meet Coordinator
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well I scheduled a few places to look at in paterson. I'm not very familiar with the area but I will obviously see it when I check out the houses. The prices looked pretty reasonable so hopefully we will find something we like. How are your taxes?
-Brian
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02-05-2008, 09:27 PM
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Fidget Lover
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According to my parents, the taxes went down in the past year...they said the taxes would be around $4-6k depending on the size of the house...
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Barb = fist pump extraordinaire
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Originally Posted by bubba428
just for the record...whos falus is lodged in your sfincter
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02-05-2008, 10:08 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SNJ
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Kenilworth...its right off the parkway, and right near springfield and is a nice town IMO...i've been living there for about 1 yr now and have had no complants at all....
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02-05-2008, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: North Jersey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by slasherbarb
According to my parents, the taxes went down in the past year...they said the taxes would be around $4-6k depending on the size of the house...
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That's nice, taxes go down over there.  Ours have gone UP every year. When we bought our house six years ago, we were paying 6K in taxes. We just got our statement for next year, hello $9K for my little 70-year-old 2-bedroom Colonial on a 50x100 plot. Bergen County taxes FTL.
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02-05-2008, 11:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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That's nice, taxes go down over there. Ours have gone UP every year. When we bought our house six years ago, we were paying 6K in taxes. We just got our statement for next year, hello $9K for my little 70-year-old 2-bedroom Colonial on a 50x100 plot. Bergen County taxes FTL. |
i don't think my family's paying that for a 350*50 in mahwah
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02-06-2008, 12:25 AM
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Metuchen is right off 287
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He said north jersey 
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02-06-2008, 07:32 AM
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The Mayor / 2009 Member of the Year / Moderator
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Originally Posted by slasherbarb
According to my parents, the taxes went down in the past year...they said the taxes would be around $4-6k depending on the size of the house...
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What?! WELL over 12k in taxes here, pretty sure it's more like 15k/yr. It's 2.75 acres.
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02-06-2008, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: west orange nj
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cedar grove looks prety nice
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02-06-2008, 10:01 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: North Jersey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Anti_Rice_Guy
What?! WELL over 12k in taxes here, pretty sure it's more like 15k/yr. It's 2.75 acres.
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No offense, but that's friggin' cheap, considering the amount of land you have! Let's put it in perspective. One acre is roughly 208x208. You could fit 8 properties the size of what I have on ONE acre, and still have enough room for a street down the middle. If you guys have 2.75 acres, that's equal to roughly 22 50x100 lots with a 16ft. wide street down the middle. That's my whole block!!!
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